The dkms-rtl8192se package is different from rtl8192se in that you will not need to manually recompile the driver after a major kernel upgrade. Apparently minor releases do not require recompilation of the driver.

The dkms-rtl8192se package is different from rtl8192se in that you will not need to manually recompile the driver after a major kernel upgrade. Apparently minor releases do not require recompilation of the driver.

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If you are using the rtl8192ce module, you may experience some intermittant deauthentication issues with newer kernels (tested on 3.4.4-2-ARCH). If this is the case, you need to add some options to /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8192ce.conf (courtesy of Lord_Lizard in this thread [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=132931])

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Revision as of 13:50, 7 July 2012

Note: This article will be updated from time to time and is currently (as of 2010/09/5) processed by User:ProfWho

This article was written to assist you with getting archlinux run on the Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13. It is meant to be help you with some tricky points aside to the Beginners' Guide: A guide through the whole process of installing and configuring Arch Linux; written for new or inexperienced users.

Inserting such a prepared USB-Stick into your Thinkpad Edge, and things should be self-explanatory after that.

Creating an installation medium

To create a bootable USB-Stick with the archlinux*.iso you downloaded, simply:

dd bs=8M if=archlinux*.iso of=/dev/sdX

which will/should behave like a regular bootable CD-Rom in addition to a capable BIOS and the correct bootsequence! In doubt or in case of problems see Install from a USB flash drive for more detailed instructions.

Installation

After that it is recommended to follow the usual installation procedure described in the Beginners' Guide up to the part 2, as the installation of the wireless lan card needs some further work.

WLAN driver installation

The WLAN-driver doesn't come with the current repos and was uploaded to the AUR: The package can be found here.

As you probably are a archlinux newbie, the AUR - or Archlinux User Repository is a community repository, which lives quite dynamical and changes shapes quite fast, where friendly members upload there compilation and installation package prepared code.

To get it running:

Unpack your downloaded package

As a 'normal' user run

makepkg -s

in the unpacked directory and

then install it:

sudo pacman -U PACKAGENAME

Maybe a

depmod -a

might be necessary, however the module should be loaded after that.

Installation via yaourt

If you already have yaourt installed then instead of manually downloading, unpacking and compiling the package, you can simply do:

yaourt -S rtl8192se

or

yaourt -S dkms-rtl8192se

The dkms-rtl8192se package is different from rtl8192se in that you will not need to manually recompile the driver after a major kernel upgrade. Apparently minor releases do not require recompilation of the driver.

Deauthentication Issues

If you are using the rtl8192ce module, you may experience some intermittant deauthentication issues with newer kernels (tested on 3.4.4-2-ARCH). If this is the case, you need to add some options to /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8192ce.conf (courtesy of Lord_Lizard in this thread [1])

Audio

To get jack sensing to work add:

options snd-hda-intel model="olpc-xo-1_5"

to /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf.

Video

If you have the AMD-AMD model you can use the free ati drivers.

pacman -S xorg-server xf86-video-ati

These drivers give enough horsepower for compiz and video playback.

Touchpad

A synaptics touchpad with two-finger scrolling.

pacman -S xf86-input-synaptics

Frequency scaling

The Turion work well with powernow-k8. Please refer to the wiki for more information on cpufrequtils.
Dont forget to add powernow-k8 to your modules array.

Fan control

Add the follwing line to your /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf

options thinkpad_acpi fan_control=1

Then you can manually set your fanspeed with:

echo level 7 > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
cat /proc/acpi/ibm/fan # for more commands.
# Other files will report their status and commands when read too.

Webcam

Works out of the box. Test with

mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2

If you use skype and the video is way to dark, skype forgot to enable automatic exposure control. Install v4l2 control and set it yourself. You need to to do it everytime you use skype.

pacman -S v4l2-utils
v4l2-utils -c exposure_auto_priority 1

Your video should gradually begin to brighten up. More options:

v4l2-utils -l

Suspend

First, you might need to add the following to your kernel commandline if suspend does not work. Newer models do not require the following hacks, so make sure that neither suspend nor wifi works.

kernel root= ... acpi_osi=linux noapic

Second, your wifi card will delay resume by roughly 2 minutes. That means that your laptop is not frozen but still resuming. Wifi wont want to work, too. This can be worked around by removing the wifi modules before suspend. You can do this automatically if you use pm-utils. Please refer for more information to the pm-utils wiki article. Below follows my /etc/pm/sleep.d/100wifiworkaround.sh script for automation